9. Some Concluding. Reflections on the Brownshirt Princess

Marie Adelheid Prinzessin Reuß-zur Lippe continued to write and publish neo-Nazi texts until 1990, never deviating from the line she had begun to trace in the long poem that Vogeler had illustrated and Roselius had published, seven decades earlier, in his Angelsachsen Verlag. By the time of her death in 1993 she had amply earned the sobriquet of ”die braune Prinzessin” [the brownshirt Princess] bestowed on her by posterity. Even though our tendency is to dismiss Nazi art and literature as kit.